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MS isn't going to support XP any further. All of the machines descriptions I've read posted here are sporting 1 gig of ram.
I've been using a laptop for 8 months with 2 gigs of ram, Vista 32 bit home premium, 2.00 GHZ core duo, with no slowdown experienced.
Have you gone to control panel, clicked system and run the "Windows Experience Rating" utility? It should reveal how well your system is configured to run Vista.
I don't miss losing what I was in the process of doing when XP locked up, and I don't want to spend many hours configuring an obsolete OS on my machine.
MS sucks and Vista sucks, but they are what there is today. It's 2008, and MS will come out with a Vista service pack to fix some of the few bugs I have encountered.
Don't use any of the included virus software, I use Lavasoft Adaware and Spybot manual system scans. Use firefox instead of I.E.
Unless you move to Linux or Ubuntu, do you plan to still be running XP, 18 months from now? Buy some more ram, and run the "Experience Rating" utility.
My sub scores are processor= 4.9, ram= 4.8 and hard drive= 4.6
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